The There There Letter: Flukes, Fish, and Framily
Three things from DAH.
DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. I write, organize, plan, produce, manage, direct, act, sing, promote, and make change (not the coin kind).
First up this week, Flukes …
Not part of a whale's tail (although it's that, too). Usually relates to surprising good luck, but I usually take the good with the bad. I have a little wine business that requires commercial warehouse space to store and ship wine. I'm not large enough to afford my own warehouse, so public commercial warehouses are my only option. And, because I'm small, most warehouses don't want to be bothered (too small, too much work). A few years ago I felt lucky to get into a substantive warehouse, mostly because I knew one of the managers. What a fluke! Last week, that warehouse closed its doors without warning. Now I'm back in the search for a new warehouse, still not sure I can get my wine out of the old one. Part of the same fluke? I guess it must be. What seemed like good luck then turned around now to bite me. Learning to roll with these flukes is just part of life.
https://tinybuddha.com/blog/9-ways-to-cope-when-bad-things-happen/
Second up this week, Fish …
Maybe I'm on a canned food jag. I like Jack Monroe's "Tin Can Cook." I read about eating more canned fish (the good stuff is more sustainable, usually, than fresh or frozen). That got me looking around for sources for fish in cans, and I ordered a mixed collection from TinCanFish. Tonight we're making pizza with friends and kids, and I fancied anchovies. I hope the type I got are good (meaning not overly salty … usually the sign of lower quality anchovies, in my opinion). If I'm going to enjoy all this canned fish, I'm happy to know it's good for me.
https://heated.medium.com/you-should-be-eating-more-canned-fish-bbf84969b063
Third up this week, Framily …
One of my friends, one of my close friends, sent holiday greetings to us and a few others, addressing us as "my framily, with love." Maybe I'd heard the word before. I don't know. I do know that I understood it immediately, to mean the friends we have made family, often closer than our blood relations. Obviously, a compound of the words friend and family, it's a concept that's been gaining traction for more than a decade. For me, with no living parents and two brothers living far away, having friends -- framily members -- who I can count on is essential to my happiness and well-being. My thanks to them, and my assurance that you can count on me.
https://blogs.webmd.com/relationships/20180221/you-can-choose-your-family
That's all for this week.
From Mary Oliver's poem "Sometimes" …
DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. I write, organize, plan, produce, manage, direct, act, sing, promote, and make change (not the coin kind).
First up this week, Flukes …
Not part of a whale's tail (although it's that, too). Usually relates to surprising good luck, but I usually take the good with the bad. I have a little wine business that requires commercial warehouse space to store and ship wine. I'm not large enough to afford my own warehouse, so public commercial warehouses are my only option. And, because I'm small, most warehouses don't want to be bothered (too small, too much work). A few years ago I felt lucky to get into a substantive warehouse, mostly because I knew one of the managers. What a fluke! Last week, that warehouse closed its doors without warning. Now I'm back in the search for a new warehouse, still not sure I can get my wine out of the old one. Part of the same fluke? I guess it must be. What seemed like good luck then turned around now to bite me. Learning to roll with these flukes is just part of life.
https://tinybuddha.com/blog/9-ways-to-cope-when-bad-things-happen/
Second up this week, Fish …
Maybe I'm on a canned food jag. I like Jack Monroe's "Tin Can Cook." I read about eating more canned fish (the good stuff is more sustainable, usually, than fresh or frozen). That got me looking around for sources for fish in cans, and I ordered a mixed collection from TinCanFish. Tonight we're making pizza with friends and kids, and I fancied anchovies. I hope the type I got are good (meaning not overly salty … usually the sign of lower quality anchovies, in my opinion). If I'm going to enjoy all this canned fish, I'm happy to know it's good for me.
https://heated.medium.com/you-should-be-eating-more-canned-fish-bbf84969b063
Third up this week, Framily …
One of my friends, one of my close friends, sent holiday greetings to us and a few others, addressing us as "my framily, with love." Maybe I'd heard the word before. I don't know. I do know that I understood it immediately, to mean the friends we have made family, often closer than our blood relations. Obviously, a compound of the words friend and family, it's a concept that's been gaining traction for more than a decade. For me, with no living parents and two brothers living far away, having friends -- framily members -- who I can count on is essential to my happiness and well-being. My thanks to them, and my assurance that you can count on me.
https://blogs.webmd.com/relationships/20180221/you-can-choose-your-family
That's all for this week.
From Mary Oliver's poem "Sometimes" …
Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
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